NASA astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir on Friday concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to assemble a modification kit for its power channel, which would allow the addition of solar arrays. Their primary objective centred on installing mounting hardware on the station’s 3B power channel, located on the Starboard 6 truss segment. Since 2021, astronauts on prior spacewalks have deployed six of the International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) assemblies, leaving now just two awaiting delivery to the station later this year. This was the first of the three spacewalks for the space station’s Expedition 75 crew this month. The antenna is a critical communication system NASA uses to transmit data and high-speed communication between the Mission Control Centre in Houston and the space station.